---
name: business-career-and-human-factors
description: "Business, Career and Human Factors, in 22 concepts."
version: 1.0.0
author: Learn AI
license: CC-BY-4.0
metadata:
  hermes:
    tags: [Business, Career, And, Human]
    related_skills: [ai-agents, applied-domains, llms-and-generative-ai, mathematical-foundations]
    source: https://basavapurushottam.com/learn-ai
---
# Business, Career and Human Factors

22 concepts, written for an adult with no computer science and no mathematics past school arithmetic. Each concept is a file under `references/`; load one when it is the thing being asked about rather than reading the whole domain.


## When to Use

- The reader asks about business, career and human factors and wants it explained from the ground up rather than summarised.

- A term below comes up and you want the plain-language account of it, with a worked example.

- You need to know what a concept rests on before teaching it — every reference lists its prerequisites.


## When NOT to Use

- The reader wants current events, papers or library documentation. This is a curriculum, not a news source, and it does not update itself.

- The reader wants code they can ship. Examples here are written to be understood, not deployed.


## How to Run

Open the file listed beside a concept in Quick Reference below. The files live in the `references` directory, are plain Markdown with no front matter and no dependencies — read the one you want and ignore the rest.


## Quick Reference


### AI and Society

- `references/llm-as-study-partner.md` — **LLM as Study Partner**: Using a language model as an interactive tutor — explaining, questioning and generating…

### Entrepreneurship

- `references/business-acquisition.md` — **Business Acquisition**: Buying an existing business rather than starting one, acquiring its customers, cash flo…
- `references/business-model-design.md` — **Business Model Design**: Defining how a venture creates, delivers and captures value — customers, offer, channel…
- `references/business-plan-writing.md` — **Business Plan Writing**: Documenting the opportunity, model, market, operations and financials — as much a think…
- `references/crowdfunding.md` — **Crowdfunding**: Raising capital from many small contributors, whether as pre-orders, donations or equity.
- `references/exit-and-selling.md` — **Exit and Selling**: Transferring ownership through sale, succession or closure, and preparing the business…
- `references/family-business-succession.md` — **Family Business Succession**: Transferring leadership and ownership across generations, balancing family relationship…
- `references/franchising.md` — **Franchising**: Licensing a proven business format to operators who invest their own capital and run lo…
- `references/swot-analysis.md` — **SWOT Analysis**: A diagnostic framework listing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to stru…
- `references/startup-financing.md` — **Startup Financing**: Funding a venture through bootstrapping, debt, equity or grants, each with different co…

### Talent Management

- `references/adaptive-expertise.md` — **Adaptive Expertise**: The capacity to apply deep knowledge flexibly to novel situations, as distinct from eff…
- `references/behaviourally-anchored-rating-scales.md` — **Behaviourally Anchored Rating Scales**: Rating scales where each point is defined by a concrete behavioural example rather than…
- `references/career-adaptability.md` — **Career Adaptability**: The resources that let people navigate transitions — concern for the future, control, c…
- `references/competency-frameworks.md` — **Competency Frameworks**: Structured definitions of the observable capabilities a role requires, used for assessm…
- `references/dynamic-capabilities.md` — **Dynamic Capabilities**: An organisation's ability to sense change, seize opportunity and reconfigure its resour…
- `references/learning-agility.md` — **Learning Agility**: The willingness and ability to learn from experience and apply the lessons in unfamilia…
- `references/organizational-ambidexterity.md` — **Organizational Ambidexterity**: Running exploitation of the current business and exploration of new ones simultaneously…
- `references/psychometrics-and-traits.md` — **Psychometrics and Traits**: Standardised measurement of stable individual differences, commonly along five broad pe…
- `references/succession-planning.md` — **Succession Planning**: Identifying and preparing candidates for critical roles before those roles become vacant.
- `references/talent-assessment.md` — **Talent Assessment**: Measuring capability and potential through psychometrics, competency evaluation and str…
- `references/vrio-model.md` — **VRIO Model**: A framework assessing whether a resource is valuable, rare, inimitable and organisation…
- `references/workplace-coaching.md` — **Workplace Coaching**: A collaborative, reflective, goal-focused relationship intended to unlock performance r…


## Pitfalls

- The concepts are ordered by what rests on what, not by difficulty. A later concept is not always harder; it is later because something else has to come first.

- Explanations avoid notation the reader has not met. If you reintroduce standard symbols, say what they mean, or you undo the thing this curriculum is for.


## Verification

`ls references/ | wc -l` should print 22.


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From [Learn AI](https://basavapurushottam.com/learn-ai). Prose is licensed CC BY 4.0.
